At least they have a no-ai tag
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A helpful browser extension that generates a pop up on screen when it sees the AI declaration on the page so you know the moment you hit the page.
There is also one for Steam.
It'd be nice if itch.io could filter out graphic novels, which is like 99 percent of everything when I search for categories
At least two of those are preliminary Doom ports to the NES. There's a third one that's only on Github.
It's almost like the chatbot that codes has made arbitrarily complex goals massively easier. Will that produce many low-effort or half-finished projects? Sure... but so did Unity. Ninety percent of everything is crap. You have to focus on the exceptions, or you'll drown in it.
I think that's the right way to see it. Somewhere there's a ten year old kid making 6-7 brain rot games, and when that creativity matures everybody's gonna piss their pants at the new genius. It's well worth it to endure the initial wave of slop.
It reminds me of when the Kindle became popular and the market was inundated with shit 99c novels. How many great authors of today self published their bad first effort at the time?
Steam and itchio are not curated (or only minimal). So naturally those places will also attract junk. The tradeoff is the free and open market without any organization telling what is allowed and what not (at least for the most part). Similar to Apple vs Google store, I prefer the Google store with more freedom over Apple. The price is more junk, but I want to decide.
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